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Melissa Ratcliff: “There's no doctor that would perform the surgery the next…”

Featuring: Melissa Ratcliff, Democratic | Wisconsin Senate, 16th District

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Published | Video Starts at 04:25

That doesn't happen on anything unless it's an emergency where you have a bone sticking out of your body. I mean, There's no doctor that would perform the surgery the next time they saw the kid or right then. First off, it's a, it's a long process. The doctor makes sure that the child and the parent understand everything that's going on and the parent needs to sign off on it before any surgery is completed, before age 18. (04:25–04:37)

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Asserts that transgender surgeries are not performed immediately and involve a long process.

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